Experience teaches that anyone who begins to collect in any field can feel a change in his soul. He becomes a joyful man filled with a deeper empathy, and a more open understanding of worldly things moves his soul. (Alfred Lichtwark 1852 – 1914)

Rudolfova was the glass factory, Tony. It was a former Inwald glass factory, at Dubi, founded 1906, and was the main pressed Inwald pressed glass factory, according to Marcus Newhall's book, "Sklo Union Art Before Industry: 20th Century Czech Pressed Glass." Rudolf was the name of the elder of Josef Inwald's two sons, and the works was apparently named after him.